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What Does God Hear? | Pr Sandra Chin

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from Axs Church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. So the first thing, what does he hear? Number one?

  4. All right, they're all about one bighitting, But never mind.

  5. I want to tell you what he hears. He hears

  6. the cry from the righteous. Come on, let's ten to

  7. our bibles. Psalm thirty four and verse fifteen seventeen.

  8. Have I got it? Yes? What does he hear? Yes?

  9. Some thirty four and verse fifteen or seventeen. So if

  10. you go to Psalms thirty four you will see that

  11. verse there, okay. P. Thirty four, verse fifteen seventeen. It

  12. says the eyes first, he starts with the eyes of

  13. the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are

  14. open to that cry. So look, his eyes are open

  15. to the eyes eyes are on the righteous, and his

  16. ears are open to their cry. So I've summarized it

  17. to say that he hears the cry of the righteous.

  18. Help me of the righteous in the house today, who

  19. come on all of us, your hands up. If you

  20. have Jesus in your life, you are the righteous, because

  21. He has clothed you with the robes of righteousness.

  22. Amen.

  23. So the righteous cry out, and the Lord Yes, okay, yeah,

  24. are you in the verse, And the righteous cry out,

  25. and the Lord and delivers them out of their troubles too,

  26. versus there. So yeah, if you can turn to your bibles,

  27. it'll be great today. If you brought your bibles, that'd

  28. be great. Thank you XTV as well for helping. If

  29. you have your bibles, turn to your bibles so we

  30. can read the Word of God.

  31. So the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous.

  32. I want you to be affirm and be assured that

  33. if you are the righteous of the Lord. And you

  34. are when you follow Christ, he has clothes with his

  35. robe of righteousness, and you trust him.

  36. He hears his ears are.

  37. Open to your cry. Amen. And when the righteous cry out?

  38. Have you cried out lately? Righteous people?

  39. Yeah? Have you cried or cry out?

  40. And I'm like, Lord, I need your help. And he

  41. delivers them out of their troubles. And that is what

  42. he hears. He hears the cry of the righteous. Next

  43. he also hears those who fear the Lord. Those who

  44. fear the Lord.

  45. Amen.

  46. So the Lord hears those who fear the Lord. Now

  47. what does that mean when you say fear the Lord?

  48. Someone for five and verse nineteen. Someone for five and

  49. verse nineteen. It says he will fulfill the desires of

  50. those who fear him. He will also know what is

  51. the operative word here that cry and save them. So

  52. I wanted you to catch the operative word. I say,

  53. what does God hear? And here's the word.

  54. He hears those who fear the Lord.

  55. So in that p ssum, he will fulfill the desire

  56. of those who fear him, and He also will hear

  57. their cry and save them. So the righteous cry out,

  58. those who fear the Lord fear me is not like

  59. is scared of you know, but those who honor the Lord,

  60. those who honor God, those who are able to live.

  61. You know, to please God is that's the word fear

  62. of the word fear of the Lord is to honor

  63. is to want to please God. Who you are aware.

  64. You are aware of God's presence. Therefore you know that

  65. he will hear your cry or he will hear your prayer.

  66. Amen.

  67. So I just want to say, so if you you

  68. know what does God hear? So we he hears the righteous.

  69. He hears those who fear Him, who honor him, or

  70. who please Him, who like you know when it's like

  71. you know, the story goes like this, like when pass

  72. and I, okay, maybe I won't use post.

  73. I will use myself because my husband's not here. Uh

  74. you know where what do you feel means?

  75. Because you honor, you don't want to, you know, make

  76. this person upset or think us less. So one time

  77. I went to do a wedding in Bali. I was

  78. invited to do a wedding in Bali for our partners

  79. end up Singapore. So they flew me to Bali and

  80. we did the wedding there and then at night was

  81. the dinner and so there was tables and tables dinner

  82. and this, uh, this particular person or one of the

  83. of the couple, they own a business with other partners

  84. or non Christian and they're actually in the alcohol business.

  85. They run a bar, free flow alcohol serving. I'm like, okay,

  86. but on my table, everybody's very quiet.

  87. Very good.

  88. Nobody there drink because I'm not drinking. I won't drink

  89. like you know I don't, So everybody were good and good.

  90. Everybody's very mile.

  91. Then because I had a four am flight to fly

  92. back to Malaysia. Although I offered to stay and stay on,

  93. but I want to go to church, and I'm in

  94. some somewhere I don't know where.

  95. I was rich placed in BALI. I said, I'm never

  96. my house.

  97. So we will pay you. We pay the room for you,

  98. a ready stay. I already came to one night over

  99. and I said, I'm coming home. I'll just want to

  100. attend church. So I was the only one leaving that

  101. morning at four am, so I said I have to go,

  102. So good night everybody. I'm going back early, like sleeping,

  103. awake up early. Right.

  104. I was the only one to go. But later I

  105. saw some photos.

  106. There was only dancing happy Oka's okay, you celebrate all

  107. the drinking.

  108. I'm like, oh my god, this this is why they

  109. fear me. They don't drink.

  110. So when you're in front of God, not but do

  111. it behind as well. When you honor that person, don't drink,

  112. don't drink.

  113. Okay. And so that's why I mean, you know you

  114. you you know that God is holy. I want to

  115. honor God.

  116. I want to please go. I don't do that, but

  117. I want to say, even behind him and in front

  118. of him, we do the same thing consistent. Nor when

  119. I walk outs to his God terrible AI So not all,

  120. but I mean my leaders were all right, but the

  121. rest of the members were there so happy. The free

  122. flow of alcohol. All right, make them happy. Thank you

  123. to Jesus, makes us happy.

  124. Hallelujah. All right.

  125. So when you fear the Lord again, I'm giving you

  126. the keys of the kingdom to know what God hears

  127. and therefore how you should pray. Don't come away. Never

  128. here did you come righteous? But I am righteous. I'm

  129. righteous in the blood of the Lamb.

  130. Amen.

  131. Did you come knowing that you are the Lord? You

  132. are the child of God. You fear the Lord, You

  133. honor the Lord. You please the Lord. You want to

  134. make God please with you.

  135. Amen. He hears dead prayer, dead cry. Amen.

  136. So the first one is what he hears, the cry

  137. the righteous, second, those who fear the Lord.

  138. Amen.

  139. And then thirdly he hears those who call upon him

  140. in truth. Wow, you call upon him in truth? So

  141. someone for five and verse eighteen, Someone for five and

  142. verse eighteen.

  143. If you can turn to that, So what does it say?

  144. The Lord is near to all who call upon him,

  145. to all who call upon him in truth?

  146. Everyone say truth? Amen? Truth? All right? So what do

  147. we mean by that?

  148. So in my deduction, as I studied that do how

  149. do I call upon him in truth? I feel that

  150. when we come to the Lord and you are going

  151. to something or maybe your day to day. You know,

  152. sometimes we may go to different things and that you

  153. might have offended someone, someone offended you, or you don't

  154. really like a situation. When you come to the Lord,

  155. I think something. We are quite shy to tell the

  156. Lord the truth? Right, we beat around the bushwit God,

  157. like you know lot?

  158. You know lot? I do that Now, I'm like, forget it.

  159. Just tell the Lord the truth and name the person

  160. that you're upset with you and say I'm sorry, but

  161. this person really frustrates me, okay, And then you you

  162. tell the truth.

  163. Why, God, I feel this? Why irritated with this? But

  164. so why? Because what's in your heart? Only you know,

  165. no one else knows.

  166. Outside you might be smiling, I mean sometimes I will

  167. show my two colors, like, oh not ape with you?

  168. All right? But why you're not happy with me? Can

  169. I say? Sometimes? Okay? Why?

  170. But just either your insecurity or you're just upset with something.

  171. But when you turn every day or do quiet timer,

  172. then you must tell the Lord the truth rather than

  173. beat around the bushy. Jesus because he says, I know.

  174. But when you say you have confessed it out, you

  175. hear yourself say you speak the truth. And then you say, okay,

  176. Lord forgive me, because there's not christ like at all.

  177. If I feel that way about someone, but I better

  178. deal with it. If I should confront, then I should

  179. confront and speak about it. If it's just me having

  180. your own something you don't like mine, it's your problem,

  181. not people chicken. You don't lie, it's not your what

  182. you say that right, I'm biger man. You get this

  183. your problem, all right, I'm bigan. You like chicken, I

  184. don't like it. Angry people eat meet right, So that's

  185. my problem. Will tell Jesus I'm sorry, all right, I'm

  186. not being good?

  187. All right? Maybe I should get there.

  188. Okay, But those who the Lord is near, to all

  189. who call upon him, and to all who call upon

  190. him in truth church. Keys again, I'm giving you a key.

  191. If you want to talk to Jesus, come with truth.

  192. You like the girl, you say you like the girl.

  193. If you did something that you're not proud of last summer,

  194. you just tell Jesus the truth. What you did, where

  195. your hand, when, where your eyes were? And wear your liquid.

  196. You better tell Jesus the truth. Then he will hear

  197. your cry and then you'll be delivered from your problems.

  198. Otherwise you hide here, Hi that you cannot hide with God.

  199. He knows.

  200. But when you speak it, you are actually opening up

  201. your whole person. You know, the devil won't have a

  202. hold on you. You've already confessed it, and you set

  203. it out to the Lord. And if you need an accountability,

  204. you speak it to someone you trust who watches over

  205. your your heart, leader, whatever your past. When you say it,

  206. the devil has no hold on you. So if we

  207. keep hiding all the things that we did last summer,

  208. and the devil says, I know, you say, yeah, so

  209. what I already confessed it to Jesus. Come on, I've

  210. already told it to my heart a leader, and I

  211. am I'm working in God's freedom and if I fail,

  212. I will get up one more time and I'll confess

  213. it again. But when we talk to the Lord in truth,

  214. God sees our hearts and we also be clear, the

  215. vessel will be clean and clear. Nothing to hide, no blockage, right,

  216. you know, heart problem, because we got blockage. We don't

  217. want hot spiritual heart problem no blockage. Just tell Jesus

  218. the truth, and the truth will set you pray. Not

  219. only what you know said you free. What you speak

  220. truthfully was set us free. And I and I've lived this,

  221. and I know when you don't tell the truth, you're

  222. not free. Remember I told you, I like to my mom,

  223. you remember that story about to my mom? Nineteen years

  224. old dating dating out of my parents' permission. Wanted to

  225. date my church brother. Went to see a movie with

  226. the church brother, right, because you like Nima, okay to me,

  227. I'm having a relationship.

  228. To my parents like, no, you can't.

  229. You're very strict, very strict, old God and everything now.

  230. And then I went to the movie when to watch

  231. movie and nineteen sdpm? I took STPM. No, I came home,

  232. didn't tell mom. Mom said what did you do? Why

  233. are you so late studying library? The face cannot cannot hide.

  234. Wow.

  235. She just came out and wagged me like not being

  236. like what you're like to me? I call your best friend,

  237. best friend, best friend man And told mom she went

  238. the movie what not my best friend? And and you

  239. know there's no When there's no truth, then you get

  240. clogged up. And Mam was very angry with me for many, many,

  241. many months. But I went to Jesus and I told

  242. the Lord, and the Lord forgive me. I knew that

  243. I went very very down. But as you honestly say

  244. to the Lord, then the Lord brings his word, and

  245. God led me through his to the word, discipled me

  246. to his word, and I confess.

  247. And I went to say sorry to mom. Mom never

  248. forgive me.

  249. For the longest time she refused to talk to me

  250. because I like to herla.

  251. But after that, no, again, big lesson. I cannot.

  252. I cannot lie my face of so I cannot lie,

  253. very very difficult. So don't lie, Just don't lie. Right,

  254. But these are lessons we go through.

  255. We lie to.

  256. Your mom, your spouse, your friend, your pastor don't lie.

  257. Just just just pray about it.

  258. For say, come and tell her true because only God once,

  259. only you know, He hears us when we come to

  260. him in truth.

  261. Amen. Can I get an amen? Amen?

  262. Another one? Okay, what does he hear? And I tell

  263. you what he hears, God hears the faith.

  264. Feel desperate cry? Have you had a desperate cry? But

  265. it was full of faith? Oh?

  266. Come on, another key for you here for just knowing

  267. what God hears, and we want to we want to

  268. be having breakthroughs Amen in our breath, in our prayer, life,

  269. in our walk with Jesus. So Mark chapter seven, verse

  270. twenty six to thirty. Mark chapter seven, verse twenty six

  271. to thirty was this. You know, Jesus was coming into

  272. this town and then he thought he could like have

  273. a break. He went to the region of Tire in Sidon,

  274. and then he tried to go to a house and

  275. there was this woman. Okay, now, don't blame it any woman.

  276. This woman was a mama. She was a mom, and

  277. she had a child and that child was not well.

  278. That child was possessed right, and she had an unclean

  279. spirit in her and you know it was really tough

  280. for the mom. She don't know what to do already.

  281. So this woman was not just any woman. She was

  282. a someone who was not Jewish.

  283. She was a Greek. She was a cyril.

  284. Phoenician lady, okay, and her problem was her daughter with

  285. her daughter had an unclean spirit and it was hurting

  286. her child. So the mom was desperate. But she came

  287. and found Jesus was trying to take a break. Like

  288. sometimes maybe the pasta times to take a break. Everybody

  289. busy New Years come, okay, So Jesus trying to take

  290. a break. I'm sure he was busy. He was all

  291. human when he walked on planet Earth. So he went

  292. quietly to some I don't know where you went to

  293. someone's house if you read that.

  294. But this lady found him, and so she came.

  295. So he goes he could not be hidden right as

  296. he entered the house. He wanted no one to know it.

  297. I know a lot of us don't want anybody to

  298. know it. By the way, congratulations, has a been them goco?

  299. All right? You don't know what it is? You ask them?

  300. All right, So you know hiding, right, just couldn't hid it,

  301. just couldn't hide it. I just can't hide it, all right.

  302. And so Jesus couldn't hide. You entered the room.

  303. I went to the house. And so this young this

  304. woman with a young child, young daughter. She says, siril phoonicition,

  305. she's not you. She was a Greek, and so she

  306. came to Jesus asking that Jesus would heal her daughter,

  307. would cast out the demon out of her daughter.

  308. And then you know, at this point, I want.

  309. To say, if Jesus was past to Jesus, I think

  310. you all will leave him.

  311. You will leave his church, because look at his answer.

  312. She said, Jesus, please cast out that demon from my daughter,

  313. the unclean spirit.

  314. What does Jesus say to her? Jesus says to.

  315. Her, let the children be filled first, for it is

  316. not good to take the children's bread and throw it

  317. to the little dogs, who he is calling a dog.

  318. The Greek lady. Not because he's being rude. This is known.

  319. If anyone studies literature, you would have read this in

  320. the Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, a story there goes

  321. I so didn't know when I studied that book.

  322. That was this shylock.

  323. He was the money lender, and he would talk to

  324. those who are not Jews, and he says you dogs, Like,

  325. what are you talking about?

  326. Dogs? We're calling people dogs. So the Jews have this thing.

  327. They feel like they are really the upper cross and

  328. everybody else dogs.

  329. That's how they do that. In first, because God is

  330. with us. But they should know how to love, because

  331. God loved that. They should love people are right, But

  332. they got a bit proud, so they used to call

  333. everybody else dogs. So Jesus says, hey, I have to

  334. give it to the children first, then you give the dogs. No.

  335. If you and I were there that day.

  336. I don't know what you say, Steven, I don't know

  337. what you say. Mad I know what you say. Go

  338. go p's to Jesus.

  339. How rude. I will remove my membership from your church,

  340. go elsewhere because someone else will give me attention. Does

  341. she do that? Look at her.

  342. She's a mom who has an urgent need. Don't play

  343. with mamsa all the mamas in the house. When your

  344. child is sick and you need help, you are gonna

  345. go for it.

  346. She said this, undeterred. She said, yes, Lord.

  347. Yes, Yet even the little dogs under the table eat

  348. from the children's crumbs.

  349. So even if you give me crumbs, Jesus, I'll take it.

  350. Because her faith failed, the desperate cry was that she knew.

  351. She heard that when Jesus praise people get healed and delivered.

  352. She heard the testimony. She needed that miracle. She ain't

  353. gonna let Jesus go. Even though he said to her, sorry,

  354. I can't do this for you because I cannot give

  355. to the dogs, she not, deed, you don't care what

  356. you call me, but even little dogs will take the crumbs.

  357. So Jesus, even if you give me the crumbs, I'm

  358. gonna take it. She was desperate. She had a faith

  359. that she heard from the testimony. How will people have faith?

  360. The faith comes by hearing, hearing of the word of God.

  361. She heard the testimony, she said, if that person got

  362. delivered and from unclean spirit, my child.

  363. I need my child to be healed.

  364. Any parent here, when you when your child is not well,

  365. when your child ever has an issue, you will knock

  366. on doors until you get an answer. This lady said,

  367. I don't care you me crumbs. I will uncle Jugad.

  368. I'm not changing church membership. I'm going to bother you Jesus.

  369. And so Jesus said, whoa, I'm impressed, and he said

  370. that moment that girl was healed. Wow, she said for this, saying,

  371. because of your faith, go your way. The demon has

  372. gone out of your daughter. And when she come to

  373. her house, she found the demon gone and her daughter

  374. lying on the bed.

  375. I don't know.

  376. I think we have many challenges. Some families have different

  377. I don't know what we are going through. I'm learning

  378. from scripture and I apply that scripture and I will

  379. wait on the Lord. She was not about to leave.

  380. Sometimes our prayer not answered. Now we give up. Sometimes

  381. we don't see the miracle. Now we get all that. Oh, no, useless.

  382. There is such a thing as willing to wait, willing

  383. to take only what Jesus can give. Because I heard,

  384. and I've got this faith, and i have a desperate need.

  385. And this lady said, I don't care. You can give

  386. me the crumbs. I'll take what you give. I'm not

  387. picky beggars can't be choosers. Hand over the crumbs, okay.

  388. And Jesus like, whoa you get? You don't just get crumbs,

  389. you get.

  390. The whole works. And the child was delivered.

  391. So, friends, another key to you. When you have a

  392. faith filled desperate cry, it's full of faith. I believe

  393. you push to you will see that miracle that answered

  394. prayer that direction. Maybe it won't happen immediately. Sometimes this

  395. won't happen immediately. Sometimes just just trust the Lord. Wait, wait,

  396. and you will see what is it and how God

  397. will do it. That is God's time, God's way of

  398. doing it. I just want to wait and trust God

  399. because I'm my faith is only in him, because I've

  400. heard and faith has built up.

  401. In my heart.

  402. I want that miracle. Only Jesus can give amen. Amen,

  403. And that's a key again in his keys and the kingdom.

  404. You gotta take it because sometimes we come and we

  405. ask like, Lala, you want to heal you human like Jesus.

  406. You pray like God not gonna hear you right here.

  407. You don't use that nap.

  408. But I still can go see doctor. Okay, now you

  409. can see the doctor. But we want not only to

  410. see the doctor. We also want to top up with

  411. Jesus's healing because he says bye bye his stripes. We

  412. are healed now, not not. I know, not everything gets heal,

  413. not everybody gets here. But the journey, the process is

  414. very important. And my dad did not. My late dad

  415. did not get healed from from the last round of cancer.

  416. I took him and to do the therapy. But I

  417. tell you the journey and the process of how God

  418. provided financially, how God opened the doors to the medical doctors,

  419. and even just preparing my father to meet Jesus.

  420. He was ready to meet God. I'm ready.

  421. Jesus takes me home and within a month of his

  422. worse of the worst, he went home to the Lord

  423. but the process, the trusting, the faith filled Christ. Lord,

  424. you know, help us. God just took us through that journey.

  425. Sometimes I feel the journey is more precious than just

  426. getting the answer, because it just draws us to a

  427. good God, a good Father who brings us true.

  428. We will all go through. If the mountain won't split,

  429. God will bring us over it, through it. But He's

  430. there for us. Amen. But the faith fueled desperate cry

  431. that only Jesus can answer. Amen.

  432. Next one, God, run quickly faith in the authority of Christ.

  433. Ow do you know that you have authority in Christ Jesus.

  434. When you speak the word, when you pray.

  435. So that was what happened to the Roman centurion who

  436. came to Jesus in Mathter chapter eight, and he was

  437. seeking for help from Jesus. So I turned to Matthew

  438. chapter eight and verse five ten to ten thirteen. So

  439. this is the background. There was a Roman centurion.

  440. He was eight.

  441. Okay, what's a centurion? A captain of an army of

  442. one hundred people? A centurion. So he was a captain

  443. of a one hundred soldiers. A one hundred soldiers quite

  444. a lot, right, a lot?

  445. Right?

  446. But why this captain now because of one soldiers suck

  447. it a sig.

  448. He's so yum, you know.

  449. He won dead soldier on the army, on duty or what.

  450. But it looks like he had compassion. Maybe he felt

  451. for his soldier, his man and the man, and this

  452. soldier was sick. So Romans Matthew, Chapter eight, verse five onwards.

  453. This is the Roman centurion. Jesus entered Caponium, and the

  454. centurion came to him, pleading with him.

  455. He found Jesus and he came pleading.

  456. He said, Lord, my servant is lying at home, paralyzed,

  457. dreadfully tormented.

  458. Don't know what.

  459. Sickness was he going to, but dreadfully tormented. He's paralyzed.

  460. Cannot match with the whole battalion, the whole one hundred,

  461. they cannot match, not complete, ninety nine so many, but

  462. still that.

  463. One, he said Jesus pleading with him.

  464. He says, my servant is lying at home paralyzed.

  465. And this time Paster Jesus very good. He said, I'll come,

  466. du all right, And this is a Roman centurion said

  467. I'll come, I will come and heal him.

  468. But then the centurion answered and said, look, Lord, I'm

  469. not worthy. I'm not worthy for you to come, you know,

  470. come to my house. No, no, oh no, just only

  471. speak the.

  472. Word, Jesus. You just speak the word.

  473. Because the Roman centuri said, I run a captain of

  474. one hundred.

  475. I tell the soldier come you come, I tell you go,

  476. you go right.

  477. So Jesus, which means the Roman centurion understood the authority

  478. that Christ already walked in, and he was willing to

  479. come under that authority and just said Jesus, no, no,

  480. you don't need to come to my home.

  481. I'm not worthy, like you're not worthy. Oh, you're not worthy.

  482. You just speak the word and my man will be well.

  483. And then Jesus heard it, and Jesus said, wow, assuredly,

  484. I say to you, I have not found such faith,

  485. and not even in Israel.

  486. And you've read this one hundred times. Well, I caught

  487. there was that.

  488. This. That's how we speak into our circumstances. You have

  489. authority in Christ.

  490. This centurion recognized the authority that Christ was and is

  491. and is to come Jesus, don't come. Just speak the word.

  492. Many times, we just need to know our authority in

  493. Christ and speak healing and speak, you know, into that

  494. circumstance to say, you know that will take your hands

  495. off my child, take your hands off my job, take

  496. your hands off my nation. You've got to speak in

  497. the name of Jesus, not just yourself. In the name

  498. of Jesus, take your hands off my child, take your

  499. hands off there you speak in the.

  500. Authority in Christ. We said, who are the righteous of

  501. the Lord? How many people in the room that are

  502. righteous of the Lord? Wave it all around? All right?

  503. That same righteousness is where you are standing in the

  504. authority of Christ.

  505. Do we speak that?

  506. I find it many times we're just lazy. Christians are

  507. lazy to even speak the cambrailla. I'm like, I'm not

  508. worthy to come to your house. I'm not worthy to

  509. come to your house. You speak the word and do

  510. your situation. Because the authority is not laid only on

  511. the pastor. I'm just I'm just the role. The pastor

  512. word is just a title. Rad I'm still like you right, flesh, blood,

  513. same Cairo. Okay, that will come by my faith. I

  514. will have faith with you. But sometimes you're at home,

  515. you're you're there. I'm I'm bring not how many I'm

  516. somewhere And Charlah took me an hour to get here,

  517. and then you can wait for me one hour.

  518. And then you say how now, I say.

  519. You pray for us Lah, you speak l in the

  520. name of Jesus, declare that whatever that circumstance is would

  521. be anything. Then you have the faith God. Here's the

  522. one whose faith is in the authority of Christ. And

  523. even for yourself.

  524. You have authority.

  525. We are all walking in the authority of Christ when

  526. we call him my master and our amen. So that

  527. that that word Jesus said, Wow, I've never seen such faith.

  528. He says, go your way as you have been, so

  529. let it be done for you.

  530. We're all needing to grow our faith. And I know

  531. not overnight, but honestly, faith is the currency of Heaven.

  532. There's so much that has happened in acts. And it's

  533. not just on the faith I pray on past the

  534. Kennev who really walks it. But I believe all of you.

  535. You want you planting this churche because you had the faith.

  536. You didn't have to plant examinee you and Sam you didn't.

  537. But you did it.

  538. You wouldn't have done it. Maybe you know ten years

  539. ago what say what? But then you've done it. Faith

  540. comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

  541. Faith comes as we where we see things were part

  542. of it. We can see God moving and we say, wow, Lord,

  543. I to understand in that authority and speak into that situation.

  544. Don't just sit in your in your pain. Don't just

  545. sit there and saying, oh's gone. Whatever that circumstance would

  546. be your business, would be, your family situation, your marriage,

  547. your studies, you know, your friendships, whatever it is. Don't

  548. just sit there and go like okay, Sarah, Sarah like

  549. or whatever will be will be.

  550. No.

  551. No, We're a child of God cannot be just whatever

  552. will be. It is your will be done in my life.

  553. And God's will is never lesser. He's always perfect, His

  554. ways are perfect, His ways are higher, his thoughts are

  555. higher for us. He always has a future and hope

  556. for us. We cannot just sit down and just lie

  557. there and go like whatever. No, don't say that. You

  558. speak the word of life. You speak healing to your body.

  559. You speak progress, progression in wherever you're at. Maybe I'm

  560. not so good a worker whatever, but Lord, I want

  561. to get better. I want to be Lord. I'm not

  562. very creative, but give me that grace. I speak that

  563. cause that creativity to arise in my spirit. How you

  564. read God's word, you spend time meditating on God's work.

  565. This is the word of life. The word of life

  566. will come in and cause us to change.

  567. Amen.

  568. Those are the faith, those are the This is what

  569. God hears. Number one, he hears the cry from the righteous.

  570. He hears those who fear the Lord. He hears those

  571. who call upon him in truth. Okay, please don't beat

  572. around the bush with Jesus, just tell him the truth.

  573. He also hears the faith feel desperate cry and a

  574. faith that you have is in the authority of Christ.

  575. Nothing else. Faith in authority of Christ. Amen. And that's

  576. what the Lord hears. So those are very positive. Amen.

  577. I always take the keys and say, Okay, if I'm

  578. in a situation, let me meditate on God's word. Let

  579. me apply God's word. But I want to say, I

  580. have something else to you. Oh, before I go to

  581. the something else. Closing this section of the Goodness of God,

  582. First John, chapter five, verse fourteen to fifteen. First John,

  583. chapter five, verse fourteen to fifteen, he says, now this

  584. is everybody, say the one more time. I can't hear

  585. you yees say it confidently. Okay, say it like you

  586. believe it.

  587. Now. This is the.

  588. That we have in Him that if we ask anything

  589. according to his will, he a man operative word.

  590. And if we know that he hears us whatever.

  591. We ask, we know we know that we have the

  592. petitions that we.

  593. Have ass of Him. We must have that confidence.

  594. I think many times we don't have the confidence that

  595. God will come through for us. We're like guessinging maybe,

  596. but maybe I'm.

  597. Not righteous enough.

  598. No, lie, you have to know who you are in Christ,

  599. righteous one, fear the Lord, speak the truth, faith, feel

  600. desperate crime. Hey, I'm believing and I'm walking in the

  601. of Christ. That's where my confidence is in Him.

  602. Amen. Amen, And we will go to many many things. Friends.

  603. You know, okay, it is not not jumping on you, bro,

  604. but some people tell me, you know.

  605. I just not you all. I'm not talking about you.

  606. Don't.

  607. Don't look at these people. I just heard in on

  608. the news.

  609. This is happening in I don't know where this is,

  610. but it's going around a bit quite. I think it's

  611. happening in different places. But this person on the news said,

  612. and they were interviewing on CNN, and he said, why

  613. are the young adults not getting married. And she said, yeah,

  614. so this lady whose author said, well, because they're all cohabitating,

  615. because it's just too expensive to get married.

  616. So they had two young adults, one from Soul, Korea.

  617. And you know, and I think from China. They us

  618. then yeah, yeah, it could be the money. I don't

  619. know what I like. I heard it and forget listen, listen.

  620. But but that's the problem she gave us the whole thing.

  621. I want to say to you when Pastor Kenna's got

  622. married to me, he earned nothing like any of you earned.

  623. I'll tell you what he earned. Five hundred ring gate.

  624. He served the church full time and they gave him

  625. five hundred ring gate. And he's going to have a wife.

  626. So you asked him to get married. Love you're married

  627. or not, you should scare. Scare four hundred how do

  628. every month? A hundred three hundred ready, three hundred ringave

  629. for petrol?

  630. Is very far? But he had to take it by faith.

  631. I had to choose to get married by.

  632. I had left my corporate life, normal corporate.

  633. I was being trained to be a missionary, so I

  634. went to teach English.

  635. After I got my third so I went to teach English,

  636. not much that time.

  637. I didn't dare tell my parents how much my husband

  638. to be with me earning love.

  639. They just know his full time in the church. Five

  640. hundred ring it Well, you need faith to get married too,

  641. not just money. You need faith. So how we tell

  642. anyone you can get married?

  643. You don't need fifty thousand, You just need faith, and

  644. what you have you pray God multiplied. You don't have

  645. to be extravagant, and you don't have to beat your

  646. next couple that glass got married, or by the biggest

  647. ring or the smallest ring or whatever.

  648. You need to trust God. And we've told this to.

  649. Many of our team of leaders. Many of our team

  650. of leaders are corporate leaders in that, but they all

  651. gone full time.

  652. I don't pay them five hundred. We don't pay our

  653. stuff five hundred.

  654. Okay, we pay them as much as we can do,

  655. but will always be a drop because we are dependent

  656. on donations.

  657. Right by faith.

  658. But you have this confidence in the Lord that he

  659. will provide that you ask of him.

  660. I think I must have a.

  661. Lot of trust in my Jesus to American and chin

  662. because both of us don't come from rich families. My

  663. father lost everything. His father don't know want, I don't

  664. know where all the money. When our parents went very

  665. good with managing money, God still gave us a wedding

  666. of eight hundred people, which my husband will tell you

  667. seven hundred and ninety were my friends. Okay, okay, we

  668. still had it and God provided every step in fact

  669. us again, I paid for most of the bills.

  670. My dad only gave me a small amount.

  671. To take care of my bills, but passes to care

  672. of everything. And with Chinese weddings we always have a

  673. little bit extra God provide, which went into the ministry later.

  674. But we need to take steps of faith. What you

  675. can see right, we walk by faith and not by sight.

  676. But who do we cry out to?

  677. To the one who hears the cry of the righteous,

  678. the one who feared the Lord, the one who has

  679. you know, speaking truth, the one who has faith filled

  680. faith filled desperate crank God, I don't know. I want

  681. to pay the bill, but I was happy, go lucky.

  682. It was all on my husband to be his shoulder. Yeah,

  683. I know, worry one day, oh your problems, because my

  684. confidence was in the Lord. Just happy to get married.

  685. Are you all right? But where is your confidence? Whatever

  686. that is. Don't play play. We have a father God

  687. that provides and leads us. I just want to encourage

  688. your faith. Don't throw away this whole, this hole, this

  689. big thing in our Christian work is faith. Faith is

  690. the currency of heaven. In Malaysia we use ring it.

  691. In Japan we use the In Australia we use the

  692. Australian dollar. Alright, in the UK we have the pound

  693. word about heaven. Well, we're living heaven on earth. We

  694. need faith. Amen, So grow your faith. Take steps of faith.

  695. Small steps don't have to be bigger yo. No, we

  696. have to walk by faith and not by sight. The

  697. more you walk by sight, you will not experience the supernatural.

  698. The more you take those steps of faith, all of

  699. us have to walk that step of faith. I also

  700. have to just because on full time. You don't think

  701. I have challenges. I have to buy faith go through

  702. those things too. I want to encourage us. We all

  703. walk by faith, not by side. But let faith come

  704. by hearing and hearing the word of God. Testimony time

  705. is so important. It deuilds faith right and then reading

  706. the Word of God it builds faith, not just watching

  707. YouTube preaching.

  708. It builds faith you must know what God's worth.

  709. Say, if you don't read the love letter that God

  710. sent us, that's that's where faith is built, not just

  711. on the testimonies of the You must also come back

  712. to God's way.

  713. All right? Now have confidence? Amen, people here. Amen. Amen,

  714. you're going to something. I want to encourage you. We

  715. build up our faith. Tell you how I got married.

  716. It was by faith five hundred dollars salary, but we

  717. still got married. It wasn't a cheap marriage. We paid everything.

  718. Amen. God helps by faith. Amen. But I want to

  719. ask you this question.

  720. What else does God hear? What else does God hear anyone? Well,

  721. this is why we need to do this. He hears

  722. your complaints and you're murmuring. Ah, he hears your complaints

  723. and your murmurings. Oh my word, would you like God

  724. to hear your complaints and murmur rings.

  725. Well, we have to look at what the Word of

  726. God says.

  727. Okay, So Exodus. So Exodus sixteen, verse two right and eight. Okay,

  728. Exodus sixteen. Now remember in the book of Exodus is

  729. when you see the children of Israel marching out of Egypt,

  730. and they said, yes, Moses will follow you. He's going

  731. to deliver us out of Egypt into the Promised Land.

  732. They were slaves, Remember, they were slaves after Joseph died.

  733. They became slaves with the new pharaoh.

  734. Before the new pharaoh, and when Joseph was still alive,

  735. they were living comfortably in the land of Goshen.

  736. They multiplied like rabbits.

  737. They just grew and grew and grew us so no

  738. one person probably had five to twelve children. Who knows, right,

  739. because they multiplied so much that when the new pharaoh

  740. came on board, he didn't know Joseph, he didn't know

  741. who is with And they said, these people are going

  742. to be a danger to us, a threat.

  743. Because look at them.

  744. There are just so many of them, and so we

  745. will make them slaves and also ask them to if

  746. they've borne a boy, they are to drown the boy

  747. killed the boy.

  748. No baby, boys, all girls only, all right.

  749. But there was one person called Moses that was saved

  750. and God had preserved his life, and he brought the

  751. people out of Egypt.

  752. So you can read that in Exodus.

  753. But Exodus sixteen is what happens when they marched out

  754. and they moved on, and then this is what happened

  755. in verse two, the whole Congregation of the Children of Israel,

  756. while they moved out of Egypt, left everything there now

  757. in desert Lana.

  758. I don't know why. You've seen the map of.

  759. Egypt coming out. Actually it's all desert Lana. And they're

  760. coming out and they haven't They already crossed the Red Sea,

  761. so they really have the miracle. Anybody across the Red

  762. Sea before it was anybody cross anything. You know what

  763. the part is?

  764. What the part?

  765. You know you're waving at the whale, yo shark and

  766. across on dry land. So they were already now in

  767. the Arab desert already right Middle East.

  768. So they're marching.

  769. Then the whole Congregation of the Children of Israel complain against.

  770. Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. They complain.

  771. Do you know how many people came out of the

  772. of the of Egypt?

  773. Anybody give a guess? Two million? Two million?

  774. In ten minutes, two million people marched out. No hand phone, brother,

  775. no loudhailer. I don't know how communication happened. We have

  776. two million people.

  777. This is called the power of the grape vine. I

  778. heard it on the grape vine gossip.

  779. When it goes it can fly four norfold people gotsive,

  780. people will talk.

  781. Two million people.

  782. Moses, Moses, I don't know why they complain. I'm eating

  783. gravel from the ground.

  784. You're okay.

  785. Two million people complain against Moses and Aaron.

  786. It's very loud lighting. Wow. What were they saying. They

  787. were just saying things.

  788. About drink and food, as if God don't care what

  789. to give them to eat. So Exodus sixteen, if you

  790. look at it, if you turn to it, then you

  791. have an idea of what it was. The Cole Congregational

  792. children of Israel, Exodus sixteen, verse two. They complain against

  793. Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  794. What did they say? They said, oh, oh.

  795. That we had died by the hand of the Lord

  796. in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the

  797. pots of meat and we ate bread to the full.

  798. For you have brought us out into the wilderness to

  799. kill us. The whole assembly with hunger.

  800. They were hungry. They had brought some flat bretler. Okay,

  801. so they complained.

  802. Lah, they complained, and the Lord heard their complains, which

  803. at the end of it he said, Moses said, when

  804. you complain, you're not complaining against me. You're actually complaining

  805. against the Lord. And your complain really, you know, is

  806. you're mumbling there. But it's not against us, it's against

  807. the Lord. So that's why the Lord heard it. The

  808. Lord heard it sometimes, you know, and God puts authority

  809. over your lives. It's not just simply authority that if

  810. the Lot put that there, it is the Lord's doing.

  811. And when you and I complain about mom and dad,

  812. principle of your school, boss, of your company, you complain.

  813. Sometimes you're saying, God, you don't know what you're doing.

  814. You complain, and the Lord heard it. So I just

  815. want you to know that God hears your murmurings, our murmurings,

  816. and our complaints, even in the secret place. Because this

  817. says the whole congregation very two millionaires, Wow can hurt?

  818. Wow? So CAUs on right? And but the Lord heard it?

  819. And what did you do?

  820. So in verse eight for the Lord, here's your complaints

  821. which you are making against him? And what are we

  822. Your complaints are not against us, but against the Lord.

  823. And the Lord then hurt the complaint, and he he

  824. still provided food for them. He provided manner, He provided

  825. food angel food from heaven. Yeah, in the morning. And

  826. then they said they didn't have meat, so he gave

  827. them quail in the evening.

  828. How did the quail fly in? From? Where? Which wind?

  829. The Lord blew in and the quails came in the evening,

  830. so they had man are in the morning, quail in

  831. the night in the evening.

  832. You have to read the whole thing. That's why I

  833. say you have to read the Exodus.

  834. You got to read the numbers, You got to read

  835. the Deuteronomy, and then you come back to Livetticus because

  836. there was all law.

  837. And then you see the journey. So he provided, he provided.

  838. But knowing that, wow, they complained against the lord. Numbers

  839. eleven numbers eleven? What else happened you? It feels like

  840. they never stopped complaining. Are your complainers?

  841. Okay? But we don't want to live complaining forever?

  842. Right? I also complain. We complain so many things. We

  843. complain about our government laws, We complain about this. We

  844. complain no water that they.

  845. Know what is like? Oh yeah, what the way? We

  846. keep murmuring?

  847. But how is the heart when we murmur? Can it

  848. be happy when you murma? Can you be happy when

  849. you murmur? No? You you you're angry and you're upset

  850. about something, and you murmur right, So this eleven again,

  851. it says verse one.

  852. Now when the people complain, it displeased the Lord, for

  853. the Lord heard it.

  854. Okay, So again throughout the forty years they were complaining.

  855. Can you live forty years complaining murmury? We could be

  856. heard if I don't know who murmurs more male or female.

  857. M I don't know. Some man knows.

  858. Naggy maybe, or maybe they're naggy, you know, they just

  859. my husband or husband changed on the husband, change husband,

  860. changing on about husband. Can I change myself? Like I

  861. don't know whatever it is. The whole congregation again complain.

  862. So I just want to say that it's dangerous because

  863. it displeased.

  864. We all want to please the Lord, not displease the Lord. Amen.

  865. I just want to bring this to us. I won't

  866. go to John and James. It means the same thing

  867. because in John Jesus told the people stop complaining. They

  868. were complaining about, Oh, Jesus, why you make us during

  869. the blood Lord eat your flesh.

  870. Actually he was talking about the.

  871. Future that he will he will die and then be resurrected,

  872. and then he will give us the communion right, But

  873. it is his body that will die for us, his

  874. blood that will shed for us.

  875. They couldn't see it.

  876. James also speaks about, you know, complaining against one another.

  877. Stop it, He says, because good does not delight in

  878. murmuring and complaining. All right, So I want to come

  879. to us and say what happens when we murmur? See,

  880. we want to walk always up right before the Lord.

  881. We want to walk having open heaven always there is

  882. our god desire for us. That is what we want.

  883. But what stops the prayer from being answer? What stops

  884. us from breaking through? Sometimes? Sometimes?

  885. Why?

  886. Maybe it's because our murmuring. What's the children of Israel

  887. from this obedience to murmuring forty years?

  888. Friends?

  889. We don't want to spend forty years wildering around something

  890. when we can actually have breakthroughs and walking in peace

  891. and joy.

  892. So what happens when we murmur? Number one?

  893. We lose sight of God's plan. It's very dangerous to

  894. lose sight of God's plan. Our faith is lost. We

  895. lose sight of God's promises. The children of Israel complained

  896. so much that they lost sight of the plan, and

  897. the plan was to get them to Canaan lend the

  898. promise land amen. Sometimes, as we're so caught up with

  899. our disagreements and unhappiness, where we lose the purpose of

  900. why did I get married in the first place? First,

  901. first you marry God, I mean loved. Now you're married

  902. five years? Like, I hate these guds, this reality there

  903. as a past. I had to walk too many many marriages,

  904. And I ask you, why did you first marry You

  905. chose him. I didn't ask you to marry him because

  906. he was funny, and so why is he not funny? Now? No?

  907. He irritates me. So it irritates you. What do you do?

  908. You walk out, You work on it. Stop being irritating,

  909. be kind, be generous.

  910. Sometimes, like dead load marriage, we can work it through

  911. and there's not third party involved, and he's just just irritating.

  912. It doesn't make me laugh anymore. Do you think I'm married?

  913. You do?

  914. You can make me laugh?

  915. Sometimes, very immature when people and in counseling we already

  916. asked those questions, but oh, come on, we lose sight

  917. of the plan.

  918. We lose sight of why we first of all.

  919. Came to kl came to Malaysia. Why And we start

  920. complaining because we're filled with all the negativity. We forgot

  921. why we're even here, why we even have this, why

  922. we started the business?

  923. Why am I doing my PhD? Because now my head

  924. is damaged? Okay, all right?

  925. Why because because the God lead me here, because I

  926. chose to do that, and I stand on my ground.

  927. Be consistent. I think so many times we're not consistent.

  928. We shave, We shave gold posts. Goal here, goal goal life?

  929. Is I there? In marriage the same thing we're talking about.

  930. You didn't buy dinner, but the wife would dig out

  931. something else from two years ago.

  932. Not only you didn't buy dinner, you didn't buy dinner

  933. for my mother. Save gold posts. Again.

  934. We lose sight of the plan of why we did

  935. what we did, all right, so continue to mama, you

  936. will continue to lose sight of the plan, the promise.

  937. The re isn't why God has brought us here because

  938. we answered a call. We believe something. We don't want

  939. to lose sight of the plant. So easily we can

  940. lose sight. Number two, we allow doubt to rule. That's

  941. what happened, that chure issue. They begin to doubt the

  942. goodness of God after seeing a red sea part.

  943. They are now saying, I'm hungry, You're not going to

  944. feed me. I should have died. We should have just died.

  945. We should have remained at least in Egypt, we would

  946. have melons and leaks and garlic and onion and fish.

  947. Now we eating sand.

  948. We doubt. We allow doubt to rule instead of trust.

  949. That happened. It had happened.

  950. It happens to all of us as well when we

  951. lose sight, when we murmur and murmur. Actually, the more

  952. you complain about your boss, about whatever, and as if

  953. you're starting to make do something love, why you complain,

  954. Either speak up or leave, find something else. Stop murmuring.

  955. It will eat you up. It will make you very down.

  956. It will squeeze the life out of you. And then

  957. you say somebody else got you there.

  958. No, you got.

  959. Yourself there, because there is deep I don't know what

  960. you call it, rubbish inside It clogged up your system.

  961. We allow doubt to rule when we murmur constantly about

  962. another person about situation number three.

  963. We will let unbelief grow. Believe that we will let

  964. unbelieved grow. Anything you plant and you nicely water it

  965. will grow. Right. So you have a seed of anger,

  966. and you keep watering it, what will grow?

  967. You have a plan of this contentment, you keep watering it,

  968. it will grow. Same thing, your unbelief will grow. The

  969. more you disbelieve your leader, your boss, your parent, your whatever,

  970. the authority over you or the plan, it will grow

  971. and you will develop even more unbelief. We don't want unbelief.

  972. Come on, come on.

  973. Oh we cannot, we cannot. I tell you.

  974. We want to grow faith. We want to grow our hope.

  975. We want to live into our future. Amen, allelujah.

  976. Amen.

  977. So I'm just running through because time is running out

  978. on my all. Right, well lose sight of God's plan.

  979. We allow doubt to rule. We let unbelief grow. And

  980. that's how I'm just saying. In reality, that's how we

  981. either kill or raise up something. You kill it by

  982. having doubt, unbelieve, you know, forget why we even got here.

  983. And then I want to say this very important thing,

  984. this plan, because this is what happens to the children issue.

  985. You study numbers, you'll see that in numbers eleven and fourteen,

  986. you'll see how they just became. They just lost it.

  987. They lost the plot for lee. We invite curses to

  988. come upon us. Why do I see that? Because it's

  989. a cycle. Right, You keep complaining you open yourself up

  990. to more negativity. You just keep opening up nothing else

  991. nice to say, not sowing even any positive words. Wow,

  992. that's it. What did the children of Israel say? If

  993. you read numbers fourteen? I think in twenty eight they

  994. all the timer. They kept saying, Ah, we should have

  995. just died, We should just you should have just left

  996. us in the desert.

  997. And then we just you know, just there because it's so.

  998. This is finally, when the Lord had to make the decision,

  999. he says, say to them, as I live, says the Lord.

  1000. This is numbers fourteen and verse twenty eight. Say to them,

  1001. as I live, says the Lord. Just as you have

  1002. spoken in my hearing, you spoke it out my hearing.

  1003. So I will do to you. And this is what

  1004. I'll do to you.

  1005. The caucasses of you who have complained against me shall

  1006. fall in the wilderness. And all of you were numbered

  1007. according to your entire number, from twenty years.

  1008. Old and above.

  1009. All of those who are twenty years and above died

  1010. in the wilderness. God is very patient, He's not rushing

  1011. forty years our wit. I think we all wait one

  1012. day or so, we like pulling hair ready, But God said,

  1013. it's okay.

  1014. I will not bring in.

  1015. Rubbish into the Promised Land. I will not bring in

  1016. disbelief and unbelief. I'm gonna come in by faith. This

  1017. is not me saying and judge.

  1018. This is Bible words. God is so bad. No, he

  1019. wanted good things.

  1020. But because we distrust God, we so unbelieve, we so doubt,

  1021. we sow negativity, we call curses.

  1022. They every time they.

  1023. Complained, they will say, we should have just died, We

  1024. should have just died. So you speak our tongue has

  1025. what power off death and life? You want something to grow,

  1026. you either speak deaf or you speak life to it. Amen,

  1027. it's so dangerous.

  1028. Amen, not amen. Ouch.

  1029. So they were speaking death into their purpose, into the promise,

  1030. into their future.

  1031. Complaining does this.

  1032. I don't know how long somebody can complain, but I

  1033. have seen some people like this. Every time I talk

  1034. to them, they are talking the same thing. Either they

  1035. cannot forgive somebody, or they just cannot see eye to

  1036. eye with someone, or they just bring back the past.

  1037. And I'm like, but that's the past. You can do

  1038. something about your present and your future. We just gotta

  1039. walk away from that lie, from that hurt from that

  1040. offense and walk away and walk in the light as

  1041. Jesus is in the light. This is another key Church,

  1042. Your key to your walking in the freedom of Christ

  1043. is stop murmuring, complaining, gossiping, negativity. It will rob not

  1044. only you but the people around you. How many times

  1045. we have seen gossip killing not only the dreams that

  1046. is for you, even for others because they get influence

  1047. and go like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think God don't

  1048. love us anymore.

  1049. That's what the two million people did.

  1050. Maybe not all two million, but there was a majority

  1051. that had unbelieved a majority, but wow, it really affected everyone.

  1052. And later on, as you read on, you will see

  1053. a rebellion that was lead. Two hundred and fifty people

  1054. died everyth they came against Moses.

  1055. You can read that it's very dangerous.

  1056. The more you complain, the more you talk in the

  1057. corners you think nobody here. God hears, and you break

  1058. his heart because His plans for us are perfect, all right,

  1059. So remember these for things are what happens to me, Mama.

  1060. We will lose sight of God's plan, we allow doubt

  1061. to rule, We'll let unbelieved to grow, and we invite

  1062. churs us to come upon us. I don't want this

  1063. for myself.

  1064. Not for you. I give you the keys. And so

  1065. how do we overcome that?

  1066. He also were talking about what God hears, right, he

  1067. hears all these things.

  1068. So what so then, what do we do to reverse that?

  1069. Number one? Come on, put on the garment of praise.

  1070. Come on, every time you have so irritated with somebody,

  1071. praise Jesus.

  1072. Right, Oh kaylor you can't play that. You can't play,

  1073. thank you Jesus.

  1074. You gotta put on the garment of praise and take

  1075. off the garments of all the all of our anger

  1076. and all of our disbelief. Right, put on the garment

  1077. of praise Isaiah sixty one and verse three.

  1078. Amen.

  1079. Because it says that all the ashes always sit in ashes.

  1080. But he says, yeah, to give them the beauty for ashes,

  1081. and then the oil of joy for mourning, and the

  1082. common of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Cota Eno

  1083. said Steven. And the more we complain the spirit of heaviness,

  1084. you don't believe it. I tell you that non Christians

  1085. believe such things. Spirit of heaviness, the spirit of evil,

  1086. evil works, will sit on your head, on your shoulder,

  1087. and then you go like the hunchbag of not too dumb.

  1088. Then for a whole life like that.

  1089. No, let us ask for beauty for ashes, the oil

  1090. of joy for mourning, and put on the garment of

  1091. praise for the spirit of heaviness when you feel down.

  1092. And I've experienced this, when I feel that there's just

  1093. too much, sometimes doubts, sometimes words are man that people

  1094. will say a lot of things. What do I do?

  1095. I go, God passes, Stephen. I can complain to you

  1096. like you see a letter, and I can't do that. Now.

  1097. If Ussus Stephen.

  1098. Has wisdom of the Lord, the Holy Man of God,

  1099. you say, pass to stop it. Put on the garment

  1100. of praise, okay.

  1101. And then praise Scotlon Okay, Toby, what does he say?

  1102. Even I think there's one song we singer. What's the

  1103. song I forgot? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you know.

  1104. So like, don't stop stop complaining, stop speaking, I start

  1105. speaking out right.

  1106. I praise when I'm done, I praise when what song

  1107. is that? Praise? When da naa pray it's a lot,

  1108. oh my soul.

  1109. Right, So even when I'm down, even when I'm out,

  1110. I'm still gonna praise, right, don't just sing it as

  1111. a great song on Sunday. Sing it to your Monday

  1112. and your Saturday. Come on, singing into your your your sickness,

  1113. singing into your problem. Don't just sing it on Sunday.

  1114. So I tell the worship team stop singing popular songs.

  1115. Sing songs that people can sing from Monday to Saturday.

  1116. Right church, you cannot you go home.

  1117. I forgot this.

  1118. I forgot the song because so long a loud the words.

  1119. That's why we make you sing the same song four weeks.

  1120. It helped me so much as I laid it for

  1121. four weeks. I know can remember the words at least

  1122. and remember that you not. So then we go home

  1123. and we sing when our life gets into complication, when

  1124. we're down, when the results come on and you didn't

  1125. get you I don't know.

  1126. One hundred marks you got eighty eight max not good enough?

  1127. Do youla? I don't know what you do?

  1128. What do you do?

  1129. Do you complain? Do you go and curse God? Do

  1130. you tell how to give up my faith?

  1131. No?

  1132. Praise the Lord? Oh Ma? So you praise when you're no, No,

  1133. only praise when you're happy. Who cannot do that?

  1134. Can do that?

  1135. Ali and Mutu can do that, but you don't just

  1136. in a si Lama Ali, Mutu and whatever his name is.

  1137. But you better be praising God. Put on the government

  1138. of praise. Next. Another thing that God loves hearing. No,

  1139. only praises.

  1140. Gratitude and thanksgiving first. Thessalonians, Chapter five, verse eighteen. Anybody

  1141. here ask the question, and not what is the will

  1142. of God?

  1143. You're so excited. I want to know the will of God.

  1144. I don't know if I have a seminar how to

  1145. know the will of God? Everybody will come, Come and

  1146. learn to pray? Nobody come, come and do missions? Nobody

  1147. come how to find your love life? Yes, come, all right,

  1148. So I say, how to know the will of God?

  1149. I tell you what the will of God has already

  1150. written in the Bible. This is the will of God.

  1151. Give thanks right in everything, Give thanks for this is

  1152. the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

  1153. Friends, gratitude. Sometimes we are so not grateful for our

  1154. parents who paid the price. We don't understand. Now. I'm

  1155. looking at You're gonna be.

  1156. Parents if you just marry it, right, I'm just thinking

  1157. the cost of education today.

  1158. All scared.

  1159. No, No, don't have more than one child. Please, I

  1160. have two love three. By faith, God will provide.

  1161. If not, we cannot.

  1162. Populate the Oh Jesus is be foodful and multiply. He

  1163. also a multiply for you. We sometly forget what our

  1164. parents have paid for us. We score them. Sometimes when

  1165. we grow older. I don't call me older, then you

  1166. forget why grateful. God is very big on thankfulness. They

  1167. forgot to say, thank you, Lord, you took me out

  1168. of slavery into your promised land. They've forgotten wow we

  1169. experience Until today, my dear friends, the Jewish people can

  1170. only talk about the Red Sea because never before in

  1171. the history of the world has anyone experienced a parting

  1172. of a red sea. Never until two days the world

  1173. knows what God has done for the Jewish nation.

  1174. They hate them.

  1175. God will fight for Israel, but they always forget. They

  1176. don't know how to be thankful. You and I we

  1177. better practice thanksgiving just sometimes, just whatever the difference is.

  1178. You must just remember what what did your mom do

  1179. for you? What did my pastor do for me? I'm

  1180. sure they've done something for you good. Aside from all

  1181. the schooling, I don't know why the school life. Something

  1182. something that your friend, your home, leader, your boss. There

  1183. must be something you can say thank you God for gratefulness.

  1184. Gratefulness it breaks God's heart.

  1185. I can't imagine.

  1186. I'm not gotten. No, I'm just a human child of God.

  1187. Just sometime people, wow, you say all this. I remember

  1188. walking with you to your valley today. You're all big

  1189. ALREADI and you just leave not a memory at all.

  1190. What the times I must at least say thank you

  1191. for all this. We are grateful, but we've got something else.

  1192. That's fine to leave to talk about our parents or

  1193. our you know, people who have helped you. Love. God

  1194. has helped us over and over and over again. He

  1195. carries us. Please exercise the will of God.

  1196. Be thankful, give thanks.

  1197. Someone told me that, so even if this situation I'm

  1198. in suffering, I give thanks.

  1199. The person offended made Yes. Yes, you just say thank

  1200. you Lord.

  1201. I don't know what the result, but I thank you

  1202. your My life is in your hands, not in the

  1203. in the in the hands of the law, or my hand.

  1204. My life is in your hands. In your hands is

  1205. my future, my hope. Everything you say, thank you Lord,

  1206. Praise you Jesus. I also have to learn to do this.

  1207. You will never know until you get to your lowest

  1208. point and nobody helps you the power of praise. The

  1209. power you've got to unlock it. Not just praising as

  1210. worship leader half the time. That's just praising on a

  1211. good day, Praising when you're down, Praising when nobody is

  1212. with you. Praise him when the water's not there. Praise

  1213. him and the promotion didn't happen you praise him, Amen,

  1214. the garment of praise.

  1215. The Thank you Lord, you are in control. Thank you Lord.

  1216. Number three. Conversations that build I'll to turn it around.

  1217. We eficients, Chapter five, nineteen to twenty one. Guys, Just remember,

  1218. if our conversations are going to kill somebody, put someone down.

  1219. Then it's not good. It's not gonna change.

  1220. Let's build conversations that will build up that were encouraged

  1221. speaking the facts is one thing. Yeah, oh, this is

  1222. the fact this person. When it's full stop there, don't

  1223. keep building on it. All of us have to learn

  1224. that conversations that build up, build up, look for the

  1225. good in that thing.

  1226. Otherwise don't talk. Amen. And then the next one is

  1227. please God above, Please God above, or.

  1228. More than anything, whatever you and I do try speak

  1229. to your spirit and say God, I want to please

  1230. you Lord. Everyone asks me a lot, a lot of

  1231. young couples, so people start dating spasa. I want, I

  1232. want to please God my relationship how oh, then you

  1233. ask me design? I say, please God means to just

  1234. honor God with your purity.

  1235. Don't let your.

  1236. Hands go everywhere. Don't hang out alone in the girl's room.

  1237. You did you did in McDonald's in the lights bright,

  1238. I don't see the can't talk forever, and your hands

  1239. go where you want to please God, you do it

  1240. out in the open. You want to please God, your

  1241. ministry to honest, honest, don't gosship. Don't then become like

  1242. a snake. I don't want to be really associated with snake,

  1243. the stipen.

  1244. I don't want to be.

  1245. Associated with Jesus. So above everything else, please God, Amen,

  1246. Please God. You see that in Hebrews eleven six. By

  1247. faith only, how do you please God? We have to

  1248. come to God by faith that pleases him. When you

  1249. ask him by faith, then you please him right. But

  1250. without faith it is impossible to please him. For he

  1251. who comes to God must believe that he is. No,

  1252. he's not he was, but he is when God speak

  1253. to you, you say, Stephen, I ease if you were

  1254. black eyes. Okay, he is, and that he is every

  1255. warder of those who diligently seek him. So above all things,

  1256. please God, Amen, that's your points.

  1257. I either you called it for all. Remember this.

  1258. Don't complain, don't mama, and I'll give you Malachi three sixteen.

  1259. Last word. Those who feared the.

  1260. Lord spoke to one another. Did you know that the

  1261. Lord listened and hurt them? And a book of remembrance

  1262. was written before him. Those who fear the Lord and

  1263. who meditate on his name, extremely can come out.

  1264. Those who feared the Lord spoke to one.

  1265. Another, and the Lord listen and hurt them, And a

  1266. book of remembrance was written before him.

  1267. For those who fear the Lord and.

  1268. Who meditate on his name, hallelujah. Did you know that

  1269. God listens to your conversations. He hears what you speak

  1270. when you speak about Him to one another, when you

  1271. praise God, when you share testimonies, when you say, wow,

  1272. the Lord helped me in my time of need. Those

  1273. who feared the Lord, those who honored the Lord spoke

  1274. to one another spoke. But what, oh, this is what

  1275. the Lord did. Oh, I almost fell. I was in

  1276. the ditch, and the Lord lifted me up. The Lord listens.

  1277. You fear the Lord and not God can hear your

  1278. conversations and my conversations. That's why I said, just tell

  1279. God honestly how you feel, rather that I tell other people,

  1280. and but never tell God because truth is not coming.

  1281. For He hears all the complaints. He hears all the

  1282. cry of the righteous.

  1283. Da da da. But God also sits, and he can

  1284. hear as you speak to one another. What are you

  1285. speaking to one another?

  1286. Because a book of remembrance was written before the Lord

  1287. for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on

  1288. his name. I'm giving you the keys of the Kingdom

  1289. on how to walk with Jesus. Heys that I myself

  1290. am learning and practicing and seeing break truth. Don't walk

  1291. away from what God is saying to us. Amen, what

  1292. does he hear? He hears all the positive I showed

  1293. you ready, But the more Panicuan, we are most scared

  1294. the way we start murmuring, complaining and gussying. Yo, one

  1295. will kill everybody. It will lose sight of his plan. Yeah,

  1296. we will will allow doubt to grow. We will have unbelieve,

  1297. and then we will invite us us on our life

  1298. because we speak negative. But let's put on the garment

  1299. of praise.

  1300. Amen.

  1301. Let us give thanks and give gratefulness to the Lord,

  1302. to the people around us. Let us have conversations that

  1303. were encouraged, that will build that. Try to find something

  1304. positive to speak. And if we ever speak negative, you

  1305. remind you, man, maybe we don't talk about this. Let's

  1306. try to encourage another. Okay, and then above or please God,

  1307. Please God more than anything. More than anything, you just

  1308. want to please God. And therefore we have to walk

  1309. by faith again. Come back to faith. Wow, we have

  1310. to have faith again and say, Okay, Lord, I want

  1311. to please you. I will come to you by faith

  1312. in whatever we are doing. Amen, hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.

  1313. I hope you take that in and walk with this,

  1314. walk in your faith, walking the truth, because the Lord

  1315. is the one who's working. He hears your prayer, Amen,

  1316. he hears also your murmurings. But we don't want to

  1317. give God murmurings. We want to give God thanksgiving.

  1318. Amen.

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  1323. for you.

  1324. God bless